[Bug 10495] Wine should support PulseAudio

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10495

--- Comment #302 from Raymond <superquad.vortex2 at gmail.com> 2011-01-08 23:37:27 CST ---
(In reply to comment #228)

> 
> That is not true for the obvious reasons even a non-programmer can understand.
> Here are some "pictures" of the path that the audio data have to travel on a
> PulseAudio-enabled system when using different Wine subdrivers:
> 
> winealsa:
> [App]->[Wine]->[Pulse compatibility layer for ALSA]->[Pulse]->[Sound Backend,
> most probably ALSA or OSS kernel driver]
> 
> wineopenal:
> 1st variant: [App]->[Wine]->[OpenAL-soft]->[OpenAL PulseAudio
> backend]->[Pulse]->[SB]
> 2nd variant: [App]->[Wine]->[OpenAL-soft]->[OpenAL ALSA backend]->[Pulse ALSA
> compat]->[Pulse]->[SB]
> 
> winepulse:
> [App]->[Wine]->[Pulse]->[SB]
> 

the correct topology is

[winealsa]:
[App] -> [Wine] -> [winealsa] -> [Alsa driver] -> [Sound card]

wineopenal:
[App] -> [Wine] -> [openal-soft] -> [Alsa driver] -> [Sound card]

winepulse:
[Appl] -> [Wine] -> [winepulse] -> [PA server] -> [Alsa driver] -> [Sound card]

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